Performer: Glenn Gould
Composer: Georges Bizet, Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius
Audio CD
SPARS Code: ADD
Number of Discs: 2
Format: APE (image+cue)
Label: Sony
Size: 301 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Disc: 1
01. 1. Allegro moderato
02. 2. Andante molto
03. 3. Alla Menuetto, ma poco pi? lento
04. 4. Finale. Molto allegro
05. Th?me. Moderato maestoso
06. Variation 1. Un pochissimo pi? allegretto
07. Variation 2. a tempo rubato
08. Variation 3. a tempo risoluto
09. Variation 4. Con fuoco
10. Variation 5.
11. Variation 6. Agitato
12. Variation 7.
13. Variation 8. Con espressione
14. Variation 9. Un peu plus vite
15. Variation 10. Alla Polacca
16. Variation 11. Andante
17. Variation 12. Plus anim?
18. Variation 13. Mouvement des Ires Variations
19. Variation 14. appassionato
20. Coda. semplice – Un peu plus lent – Quasi recitativo – a tempo
Disc: 2
01. Sonatina No. 1 in F sharp minor: Allegro
02. Sonatina No. 1 in F sharp minor: Largo
03. Sonatina No. 1 in F sharp minor: Allegro moderato
04. Sonatina No. 2 in E major: Allegro
05. Sonatina No. 2 in E major: Andantino
06. Sonatina No. 2 in E major: Allegro
07. Sonatina No. 3 in B flat minor: Andante – Allegro moderato – Tranquillo
08. Sonatina No. 3 in B flat minor: Andante – Allegro
09. No. 1 Largamente – Allegro
10. No. 2 Andantino
11. No. 3 Commodo – Tranquillo
glenn_gould_edition_grieg_bizet_sibelius_piano_works02.rar – 133.5 MB
Often Eerie, Yet Beautiful
These are some of the lesser-known recordings by Glenn Gould, but they deserve to be better known. Especially the Sibelius. (Or maybe I’m just strange.
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The first disk, containing Grieg and Bizet, has some beautiful music. Definitely not the type of music you associate with Glenn Gould. But I keep returning to the Sibelius. Here, Glenn Gould experimented with splicing and microphone placement to capture the best effects at each possible place in the score. You will probably envision Northern landscapes while listening to this — yet I’ve never found this music cold.
My only regret is that Glenn Gould didn’t get a chance to record more Sibelius pieces. And that he never got another chance to experiment with microphone placement and splicing to this extent.
Fans who don’t mind experimentation should consider ordering Glenn Gould’s “The Solitude Trilogy” — where human voices become the instrument of his “composition.” Now that’s an experimental work…